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Nichro
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Today was a good one to touch grass. And encounter sealed Zelda temples.

#nature #frog

I'll scavenge ye olde archives for ideas. Is it a multi movie marathon or just one?

They have a Monero-only wallet for the diehards, I wonder if they'll offer the same for BTC 🤞

Good news either way.

You're right. I've edited and replaced her name with a general term that applies to all her ilk. She's just one of many.

That's how good people find each other too.

Soulless robots cannot comedy

Journalists like Katherine Long are the same ones who don't understand why public perception of the media is at an all time low.

They're the same ones who will see any backlash and scorn they get as an "attack on the press".

They're the ones who cry crocodile tears when they get any pushback and blame "misinformation" for all their ills and woes.

The corporate press is the enemy of the people.

Always. Tried to sniff traffic on a few of those back in the day before HTTPS was ubiquitous. Was spooky af. Even with traffic more secure now, I still don't trust public networks.

And I thought I was slick by feeding those a goofy disposable alias address

Not the only one but Mullvad accepts BTC and nothing required to sign up (not even email)

Replying to nobody

I've always admired your ability to speak your mind without being a jerk. Always been a weakness of mine, even when unintended.

Bitcoin is a tool. A very useful tool. Probably one of the best (atm) tools. But I've been coding a very long time. Nothing avoids being replaced. There is no perfect software.

The values and philosophy behind Bitcoin is what really matters to me. Any system build on those fundamentals is something I can live with.

Privacy is an off-putting subject to me. The fact that I have to neuter my Internet connection and constantly play the "why the fuck doesn't this work" game with VPNs in order to keep some asshole online from attempting to fix me was enough I questioned my involvement in Nostr at all. I don't give a crap about Google knowing I like pimento cheese, or Amazon knowing I have an unhealthy addiction to t-shirts. I have no issue with Microsoft collecting data about my PC. I expect these things, and I use the conveniences granted by that data collection (yes, if I use an ad supported service, I would just assume the ads be relevant).

What I don't like is trying to use fundamentally worse software (SimpleX, Firefox, etc) *full time* for every single conversation I have with someone. I don't pay $1200 for a phone to reduce it to the feature set and convenience of a phone I bought 15 years ago. Then I scratch beneath the surface and find out the majority of these projects are funded by the same assholes I thought I was escaping.

There is toxic maximalism on a lot of subjects. People telling other people what they should or should not do without knowing the details of their complicated lives, their threat profiles, their needs... It all reeks of arrogance and hive mind behavior. It's not exclusive to Nostr, nor is Nostr especially bad in that regard. It's the whole Internet.

Thank you for being the person who shares the tools and benefits of using them so people can be informed, without making people feel stupid or small when they don't go as far as you do. It's one of your super powers, and why I always enjoy reading your posts.

That's been the weakness I found in privacy education spaces and communities. When a friend wants to learn, I link them resources to start and read but I have to also give them with a caveat: everyone's threat model is different. It's good to know what tools are available, basic OPSEC, and use as needed depending where your current activities fall on the privacy spectrum.

I also warn them of the maximalists who will welcome a complete noob normie with "Alright sell your PC, you're gonna use TailsOS as a daily driver now and your phone will have no apps." It turns them off.

A lot of advice is too broad and there's now enough about threat modeling (though it's getting better). Gotta meet people where they are and sometimes, improvement will look different based on the subjects.

For some, running everything self hosted and not using any social media is a win. For others, simply tweaking some privacy settings and being aware they can turn off things like Location services and Bluetooth when not in use, is also a win.

Baby steps, so it's a more digestible step in the right direction and way of thinking.

As for me, like you, I'm also a compartmentalizer. I've tried many setups obsessively, reinstalled my phone and machine OS a dozen times in the past years, and compartmentalizing activities and identities is the only way that keeps me sane. In control of what I share and aware of data collection while keeping the private private and keeping a foot in that space to keep up with tools to enable privacy.